Master of Science in Islamic Art, Architecture and Urbanism
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The reestablishment of Mosul's city fabric: an approach to computational hybridization
| This paper aims out to analyze the confluence of spatial analysis and computational design strategies to support the reestablishment of Mosul's city housing fabric. According to a UN-Habitat report, Mosul suffered from catastrophic losses on an urban scale, resulting in a housing crisis that requires a large-scale response. However, the need for immediate shelters might lead to a rapid, uninformed reconstruction process, causing the loss of the architectural identity that the city accumulated over the years. |
Efficacious Architecture in Muslim Societies: The Mosque
This book series discusses architectural excellence in Islamic societies by utilizing textual and visual materials developed over more than three decades.
Place attachment of contemporary and modern districts in Cairo : the cases of Abbasiyah, Khedival Downtown, Maadi and Heliopolis
| Place Attachment is a human phenomenal common feelings and behavioral activity that accumulates with first experiences made by people in their places by either residing or visiting it. Such feelings gradually transferred with certain degree of acceptance to the place characteristics into behavioral actions of commitment to places. Those commitments are manifested in powerful bonds to their places especially by residents whom spent more comfortable time and communed with others in it in a socially, emotionally and functionally. |